Welcome to Ebony Malaika Collier's new web page for 2008 and beyond.

I learned how to make web pages ten years ago, so excuse the "simplicity" of the page. I have had numerous pages that unfortunately no longer exist, hopefully this one will last.

I am a writer, mainly a poet, currently residing in Philadelphia, PA and I am 29 years old. I read at Panoramic Poetry hosted by Crucial, sponsored by October Gallery in Jan. 2007. The reading was held at Cheyney Univ. Center City location of 701 Market St. third floor. Near Ross clothing store. They have readings every second and third Friday of the month. These readings are now being recorded and can be viewed at http://www.arttvnetwork.com. Click on "Panoramic Programs" to view. My reading was on Jan. 19 and I was fortunate enough to be included in a lineup with such local luminaries as Aeren Yeats Perry and Aziza Kinteh.

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Bio:

Ebony Malaika Collier has lived most of her life in Philadelphia, PA. She is a graduate of Philadelphia’s Central High School and Temple University. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English. She has been published in Temple University’s Effusion and Hyphen. She has also been published in The Writer Blocks Newspaper in Philadelphia and Now/Then, a chapbook-sized anthology of poets featured in the Eternal Now reading series at Robin’s Bookstore hosted by Steven Allen May. She was a featured reader at various reading series hosted by Cassendre Xavier, Steven Allen May and Justin Vitiello and Poetry Ink all at Robin’s Bookstore in Philadelphia. She has appeared in The Black Women’s Arts Festival. She was a co-organizer and participant in The Verve Poetry Festival in 2004. She has also read at The Rotunda, October Gallery (when is it was in Old City), the Latte Lounge The Set Table, and Aziza Kinteh's First Fridays on Vine all in Philadelphia.

More updates to this page forthcoming!